Smart Textiles Design Lab (STDL) is an open platform for experimental design research within the Smart Textiles initiative. Focus is on the development of research programs

• To explore and develop new means of design expression; new expressional materials and construction techniques.
• To explore and develop new perspectives on textile expressions; new ways of understanding the basic logic of textile expression.
• To explore and redefine textile design as a design profession; to open up for new design variables by adding new dimensions of expression.
• To introduce, explore and critically review the visions that tell stories about where we are going; the way in which all these new textiles and textile expressions will change our way of working and living.

Design explores given technology at the same time as it calls for new technology. As a driving force it provides directions and meanings to technology development. Just as technology as a driving force provides materials and possibilities for design development. This interrelation between technology and design is also what builds the relations between Smart Textiles Design Lab and Smart Textiles Technology Lab.

STDL management group consists of

Staffan Björk
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Division Interaction Design
Chalmers University and Gothenburg University
Interactive Institute

Lars Hallnäs (Lab manager)
The Swedish School of Textiles
University of Borås
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Division Interaction Design
Chalmers University and Gothenburg University

Johan Redström
The Interactive Institute
The Swedish School of Textiles
University of Borås

Linda Worbin
The Swedish School of Textiles
University of Borås